Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...currency in which most international deals are made and which central banks keep in their vaults as reserves. During recent runs on the dollar, the first signs of financial panic could be seen. World money markets now resemble the urban ghettos of the 1960s, when a random traffic ticket or barroom scuffle could set off days of bloody rampages. The most implausible rumors out of Washington or the Middle East cause currency jitters and a dollar fall...
THERE ARE LEFTISTS, however, for whom band-aids won't do. There are leftists who maintain a radical perspective while proposing concrete, feasible alternatives. A random sample...
...heard on radio peddling his wares in much the same way that gravel-voiced Tom Carvel sells the products of his ice cream shops. But authors of forthcoming books are woebegone. Linley Stafford, a publicist whose first book, One Man's Family, will be published by Random House on Oct. 13, has postponed the press party ("How can you have one without a press?" his agent asked). Says Stafford: "If you don't get a New York Times review, you can get lost between the cracks...
...shooting. Barger startled the Congressmen by saying there could have been four shots, and thus a second gunman. But when pressed, he said there was only a fifty-fifty chance that four shots could have been fired. Further, he said his finding could be the result of random statistical error. When Michigan Republican Harold Sawyer grumbled, "I'd hate to sue anybody or prosecute any body on this sort of evidence," Barger just shrugged...
...Janey seemed a little sullen; it had not been a good day for hero worshippers. By midnight, the girls were back in their rooms, and it was about 12:30 when a drunken security guard at one of the electric power stations across town went berserk, throwing switches at random and putting all of Memphis into darkness on the eye of the first anniversary of Elvis's death, as if in great, silent tribute to the boy who dared to rock. The tribute was lost on most of the girls, who bolted and locked their doors, and sat or slept...